Board OKs plan to allow airboats on the river

[rick]

By Austin Arceo
The Tribune-Star

City officials might have made it possible to enjoy Freedom and Independence in July.

On Wednesday evening, the Terre Haute Park Board approved a proposal to have a company work in Fairbanks Park to operate two airboats on the Wabash River.

“Freedom� and “Independence� will be the names of the two airboats, said Joe Hoopingarner, who proposed the idea last month. His company, Joe’s Airboats Inc., will.....

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[AirboatRN]

Woo-hoo!

I wonder if airboats were banned before, or if just no one thought of it before....

$10 a ride, that's a bargain! But I don't think Matt and I should ride on those.... they might overheat or something. :shock:

Rick, I don't know how you find this stuff, but we love the airboat news! Keep it comin'!

 

[Anonymous]

The Wabash River is very shallow river, but with a pretty safe bottom. In the Summer months it gets very skinny in places and seperates into a series of channels among the sandbars. It will be a perfect place to run a couple of tour airboats :wink: !
We used to run trot lines on it when I was a kid and you could wade from one sandbar to the next.
Good for them.

BF

 

[Anonymous]

Just hope he/they have experiance with airboats. We have all heard of the stories of the newbies and accidents. Hate to start out & shortyly have a bad name.